Running with scissors: a memoir
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This is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, the author found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs. It is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny, but above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
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Amherst (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
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Burroughs, Augusten
Burroughs, Augusten -- (1965-....) -- Enfance et jeunesse
Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth
Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Childhood and youth
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Enfance et jeunesse
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Film novelizations -- Juvenile literature
Homes and haunts
Intellectual life
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Massachusetts -- Amherst
Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Massachusetts -- Juvenile literature
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Novelists
Novelists, American
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists -- Biography
Social life and customs
Sound recordings
Amherst (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
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Autobiographies
Biographies
Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Burroughs, Augusten
Burroughs, Augusten -- (1965-....) -- Enfance et jeunesse
Burroughs, Augusten -- Childhood and youth
Burroughs, Augusten -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Childhood and youth
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Electronic books
Enfance et jeunesse
Fiction
Film novelizations
Film novelizations -- Juvenile literature
Homes and haunts
Intellectual life
Literature
Massachusetts -- Amherst
Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Nonfiction
Novelists
Novelists, American
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists -- Biography
Social life and customs
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